Employment Law

A former trade association art director cannot overturn an ERISA plan administrator’s termination of her long-term disability benefits for migraine headaches; the Alexandria U.S. District Court says the decision to terminate benefits after 24 months was a “reasoned and principled ...

Plaintiff commercial real estate developers who allege defendants engaged in unfair labor practices by orchestrating 14 separate legal challenges to force the developers to end their relationship with a non-unionized supermarket, win a remand for the trial court to consider ...

An accountant who merged his solo practice with defendant accounting firm and who alleges ERISA and state law claims arising from the firm’s denial of retirement benefits may not pursue his state law contract claims along with his ERISA claim; ...

A county school board wins summary judgment in this disability discrimination suit filed by an instructional aide whose shoulder injury allegedly prevented her from performing a job requirement that she be able to physically restrain autistic students in the classroom, ...

Defendant Virginia State University wins summary judgment in this suit filed by an African-American assistant professor of art who says his termination by the chair of the art department was racially motivated; the Richmond U.S. District Court says the record ...

A former executive architect for defendant healthcare company, who alleges he was fired after he complained about age discrimination against other employees, loses his Age Discrimination in Employment Act suit on summary judgment in the Alexandria U.S. District Court. Plaintiff, ...

A hospital radiology technologist who took periodic FMLA leave for her Crohn’s Disease, who alleges she was denied reasonable accommodations of working eight-hour, instead of 12-hour shifts, and being allowed to eat snacks periodically, is not entitled to a jury ...

A plaintiff who was 57 years old when terminated from his position as media center operator for defendant Babcock & Wilcox’s Nuclear Operations Group, loses his suit alleging violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as the evidence conclusively ...

An Alexandria U.S. District Court awards United Airlines summary judgment in this Title VII hostile environment suit filed by two African-American flight attendants who allege they were subjected to insinuations that they were involved in a prostitution ring run out ...